While Warning about fat, the U.S. Pushes Cheese
This is an interesting article because it highlights how the government misrepresents what's good and what isn't.
I don't agree that saturated fat is actually harmful to our bodies because we don't have any real proof beyond correlated studies. The real juice here is that while we're told we should limit our intake of saturated fat, there is an government agency that promotes the intake of the same thing they say we should limit. How does this make sense. The fact of the matter is that this goes on all the time, more or less covertly. Follow the money and you'll have all the information you need to know.Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese
Domino’s Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies.
Then help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management. It teamed up with Domino’s to develop a new line of pizzas with 40 percent more cheese, and proceeded to devise and pay for a $12 million marketing campaign.
Consumers devoured the cheesier pizza, and sales soared by double digits. “This partnership is clearly working,” Brandon Solano, the Domino’s vice president for brand innovation, said in a statement to The New York Times.
But as healthy as this pizza has been for Domino’s, one slice contains as much as two-thirds of a day’s maximum recommended amount of saturated fat, which has been linked to heart disease and is high in calories.
And Dairy Management, which has made cheese its cause, is not a private business consultant. It is a marketing creation of the United States Department of Agriculture — the same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive that discourages over-consumption of some of the very foods Dairy Management is vigorously promoting.
Urged on by government warnings about saturated fat, Americans have been moving toward low-fat milk for decades, leaving a surplus of whole milk and milk fat. Yet the government, through Dairy Management, is engaged in an effort to find ways to get dairy back into Americans’ diets, primarily through cheese.
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